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Post by murchad on May 24, 2015 2:20:05 GMT -5
Just out of curiosity... has anyone tried Sword and Board vs. Dual wield? If so, is the survivability worth the loss of DPS? And in my opinion, worth it would be... I no longer have to heal on the sham box, but instead set up warrior to take hits like a brick wall while shammy is DoTing/nuking from behind. I can do this up through Tacvi as is - even without shield... Im more interested in T6/7 - for example, right now, I really only have to pop defensive, or really pay attention and heal if I pull 8+ in CoE, or 3-4 in Feerrott, etc... Just random thoughts before bed... seeing if anyone else tried this before I go off on my own If noone else has, Ill aug out an abyss shield and check it out, let ya know ;p
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Post by yunke on May 24, 2015 2:37:19 GMT -5
You mean for trash mobs or nameds?
At this point, for F2 dragons the DW works fine without pop disc ( at least for me ) while I DoT / nuke with shaman, only with lassitide ( sometimes a HoT but depends on the situation )
For hard fights I was using DW and chaining deff disc ( For CM, since was the hardest fight till now )
Now with the fact we cant chain anymore our deff disc we need to search for other options.
Since as box our dps wont allow us to burn 6million HP in 3 mins, and even with deff up, we will need heals ( CM hurts, we all know ), the fight will be very hard
I will test DW without disc ( but im sure I will die fast ) and see how it works
Another option is use a 2h, so we reduce the riposte rate from nameds, with a chance to survive a bit more
And the 1h + shield, was thinking off an abys wep with the 3 lifetap augs and abys shield, just thinking what augs to use ( pure ac augs or jewels for the stats )
Or just start to group up , get fun with others, share camps, get loot as a team etc, so what EQ is, a teamplay game hehehe
All this I will try tomorrow / tuesday, once Im back at home again ( and get my client problem solved to aug the shield )
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Post by yunke on May 25, 2015 5:39:43 GMT -5
Ok, done CM with adonhiram Was using 1h + abys shield ( no augs yet ) Fight wasnt hard. Most of the time Adon's pet got aggro ( not sure if that should work that way, if so, we need some Hate augs / hate mods ) but once I was tanking without disc, wasnt hard at all ( maxed shield block aa ) So looks like we will be tanking with shield from now Will try tomorrow as duo with the same strat and compare the fight Also still need to try with a 2h wep, but I think I wont since the shield combo give us good stats and a good way to dodge incoming dmg.
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Post by adonhiram on May 27, 2015 4:00:44 GMT -5
Actually I did some research on the old live mage boards, the gargoyle got aggro over you not because of its hate amount but because of the root of the regular pet. As elementals have a pretty wide hit box and you probably too, the gargoyle who has a narrow hit box got aggro when root sticked on CM (just needs confirmation he can be rooted). That's the only logical explanation I found, as it is codewise impossible for a pet to grab aggro over a character in melee range.
As we know, root messes aggro making the mob hit the closest thing it finds, id est the gargoyle with the smaller hit box.
So I think it was not an aggro issue but a root issue. I was too lazy to change pet after soloing, will next time for a backstabber which suits you better Yunke :-)
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Post by yunke on May 27, 2015 7:39:11 GMT -5
Not sure if it was a root problem, since I had the feeling and always moved closer to CM when your garg got aggro. But who cares, noone died and we got the named hahahah
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